Television

Also on Sunday night at 9pm (In case oyu don't want to watch Fringe or Gethin Jones getting hot and Bothered) is A new spy drama on FXTV.

WHAT IS BURN NOTICE?

When spies get fired, they don’t get a letter from human resources.

They get BURNED...

Burn Notice, a sexy, action-packed original series starring Jeffrey Donovan as Michael Westen, a blacklisted spy. Dumped in his hometown of Miami without money or resources, Michael struggles to put his life back together and find out why he's been burned. In the meantime, he uses his unique skills and training to help people in need ... mostly people who can't get help from the police.

Burn Notice also stars Gabrielle Anwar as Fiona, a beautiful ex-IRA operative who happens to be Westen’s ex-girlfriend. Bruce Campbell stars as Sam, Michael’s closest buddy in town, a washed up military intelligence contact who is keeping an eye on Michael for the Feds. Also starring is Emmy® Award-winner Sharon Gless as Madeline, Michael’s hypochondriac mother, who couldn’t be happier to have her boy back in town.

Joining the cast this season in a recurring role is Tricia Helfer (“Battlestar Gallactica”) as Carla, the woman who may be behind Michael’s burn notice.

Created and written by Matt Nix, Burn Notice combines the best of the action/thriller elements with surprising humor and an iconic new breed of spy

A new show by JJ Abrams wtarts this Sunday at 9pm on Sky1

Fringe focuses on a female FBI agent, played by newcomer Anna Torv, who is pushed into working with an institutionalised scientist in an attempt to uncover the truth behind unexplained phenomena.

David Smyth, head of acquisitions at Sky One, picked up the drama from Warner Bros. International Television Distribution. It will begin airing in the UK this autumn.

Smyth said the show "will thrill a new generation of viewers much like The X-Files did 15 years ago."

Fringe is produced by Bad Robot Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television. The executive producers are Abrams, Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, Bryan Burk, Alex Graves and Jeff Pinkner.

The story begins as an international flight lands at Boston's Logan Airport with passengers and crew all having met grisly deaths. FBI special agent Olivia Dunham (Torv) is called in to investigate. When the search nearly kills her partner, she searches frantically for someone to help and she is led to scientific researcher Dr. Walter Bishop.

There's only one catch: he's been institutionalized for the last 20 years and the only way to question him requires calling on his estranged son, Peter – portrayed by Dawson's Creek star Joshua Jackson. Under special agent Phillip Broyles, the trio discovers that what happened on that fatal flight is only a small piece of a larger, more shocking truth.

SO JJ Abrams starts another show on a plane! He must have had a really bad experience when he was younger